Hand drawn or painted FDC (first day covers) have been done since the 1940s. Over the past few years I have begun combining my collection of comic character hand drawn sketches with FDCs. This blog is being maintained for the purpose of sharing my collection...

Comic cancellations-postmarks

Casper the Friendly Ghost

Created by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo for Famous Studios and Harvey Comics

BC Open, PGA tournament from 2000-2006. Originally the Broome county Open, often associated with Johnny Hart's comic strip BC, whose characters were often used to promote the event.

September 15, 1995 Endicott, NY

Dennis the Menace Oct 16, 2010 Linwood, NC

Commemorative cancel to honor Dennis and Marcus Hamilton who draws the Dennis daily strips. Hamilton is from the Linwood, NC area.

Holly Jolly Christmas, featuring Sam the Snowman from the Rankin-Bass animated show Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964). The cancel has been in use in several towns throughout Jasper County, Illinois since 2005.

Milanofil is an annual expo convention of postcards and philately, and was held March 19-21, 2010 Milan, Italy. The meter cancel above features the comic book character Diabolik announcing Milanofil 2010. Diabolik was created by Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962 and was inspired by Italian and French pulp fiction. Diabolik is a master thief, who steals from criminal...

A stamp honoring the Diabolik character was issued by Italy in 2009...

and by San Marino in 1997...

This is an oddity, not an error.... When the DC Comics stamps were issued I had some of the covers canceled with a DC Comics stamp and one from the Canadian series issued in 1995. On the above cover I placed the Captain Canuck stamp, but left off the DC Comic stamp, and included the cover with my others to be canceled. Since the Postal Service cancels thousands of covers there was a slim chance they would catch this and stop it from going through.

2012.07.12 California State Fair

Cartoon Beatles pictorial cancel - opening day of the fair features The Fab Four, the ultimate Beatles tribute. Hope to get a sketch for this one...

About Me

I have been a collector as far back as I can remember. Stamps, covers, autographs, baseball cards, comic books, coins, political buttons, sports memorabilia, space stamps and covers, and the list goes on.
This blog was set up to be able to share a small part of my collection with anyone who shares the interest.